Wolves are taking their kids fishing.

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

Make a spreadsheet. List cooking times (and resting for protein), device (oven, crock pot, stove top, smoker, grill, etc) and temperatures. Work backwards from when dinner is ready. Project manage this fucker.

To appreciate trans existence you have to face the horrifying reality that trans adults were not cis kids.

On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy, Charlie Brown.

I did it thirty minutes ago, Charlie Brown.

The leftism leaving people's bodies like cartoon ghosts when people say "artists need to be paid" and "don't steal books."

"Some audiences struggle with a singular they." "Looks like they're struggling with a singular audience!"

Most things in here don't react too well to bullets, Charlie Brown.

You have my sword, Charlie Brown.

Carrie Fisher was the blueprint. Protect your people. Call out the predators. #RESIST

Russian in origin or not, it's a shitty deal for Ukraine.

And with alt text:

I never in my life want to hear another Republican bitching about Democratic Presidents ruling by executive order.

"New", George?

... Boy, Dickens is the worst example to pick here. "Dickens's world is too far removed from modern experience." What, you mean the world of enormous wealth disparity, the industrialization of human life begetting generational suffering, the young forced to scavenge on the fringes of society...

So fucking tired.

At the end of the day, all computers do what they're told. Told by _whom_, now, that's the question.

Everyone stop acting weird and shocked about MTG. She has been systematically distancing herself from the current GOP for months and months. She has a plan reform herself under a new image ON THE RIGHT that’s not part of a sinking ship. She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST

I mean, if we MUST have an easily-swayed tool in the White House...

I blame _Sister Act_.

We need to find a way for Trump to believe that Stephen Miller has treated him so badly and that the ICE goons have treated Trump so very badly. He believes made up video montages of Portland “violence.” Let’s show him ICE disrespecting him and Miller laughing at him, trying to be his puppet master

Important fox and otter business in Lincoln: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone

"...I got a -rock-."

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

"Watch it" is more the Divine Miss P's style.

"Challenge scientific orthodoxy". What a flattering way to say "spout bullshit that will kill people".

"It's dangerous to go alone. Take this."

I have to believe she knows better, but expects her followers not to. Whether that's more or less charitable than assuming she really is that fucking ignorant, well, that's left as an exercise to the reader.

Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …

Number one, even if we grant the premise they'd been "conceived as disinfectant chambers", that doesn't explain away what they were actually fucking used for. Number two, you KNOW a statistically-significant number of Nazis would've referred to burning bodies as "disinfecting".

And also? Nobody can bust you later for something you *imagined*. But stuff that you asked the world-fucking plagiarism machine for? Hoo boy.

…2) if we're now out here telling individual states what they can and can't regulate, "AI" or otherwise, then I ask again:

Who's stupid enough? Does the phrase "Dey turk arr jarbs!" hold any meaning?

Alternate title: _There's a Monstrous Medical Bill at the End of This Book_

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I mean, strictly speaking, Vance is right. Trump isn't a violent person. He doesn't engage in the violence *himself*. He has _people_ for that.

You don’t promise to execute lawmakers for warning the military against illegal commands unless your goal is to give those illegal commands and expect the military to obey them.

And so, here we are. A year since his re-election -- and I still can't get over that -- and here we are. Every day, a new outrage. Every day, the window moves. He'll either be removed from office, or eventually, the nukes will launch. Here we are. Hold on, everyone.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

"Week" holiday sales, huh? The holiday shopping season's just seven days this year, I guess?

The "HBO Feature Presentation" sequence is up there as well, but yes, if we're talking non-cable...

Asimov created the Three Laws on the assumption that we'd be sensible enough to hard-code, possibly hard-wire, them into robots. Unfortunately, some people think that an inhuman, non-sentient, possibly much stronger servant in one's home will *automatically* come with those Laws installed.

"Lex, my _mother_ lives in Hackensack." *looks at watch, shakes head*

And the cat can't help but be amused.